Re: Bug#1115582: bootterm package fails on ppc64le

Hi,

On 9/19/25 7:25 PM, Faidon Liambotis wrote:

> stable is not relevant here, as any fix to this bug is going to be
> targeting unstable/testing. A missing architecture is not enough grounds
> for a stable update, especially in such a minor package.

We have a similar problem in ngscopeclient, which also FTBFS on ppc64le 
because of or despite a horrible contraption[1] in the source code.

This one also uses termios2, which seems to be unavailable from any 
headers on ppc64el -- I wonder if we can make the kernel bring a definition.

    Simon

[1] 
https://github.com/ngscopeclient/xptools/blob/310de7040c30d747ebeb50f4938908027f1f5c88/UART.cpp#L44